Player Comments on So Far From the Bamboo Grove

The quality of this is really uneven. Some pages have a reasonable amount of decently written text and others are just a couple of barely coherent sentences. I assume multiple authors and this being a school project with a deadline were factors of course.

The choices were all of the 'do what the author wants or die' sort, and it got kind of funny after awhile seeing what ridiculous and improbably way the character would be killed off next so that no alternate paths had to be offered.

Normally when crediting an author of a book you would include the author's name as well as the title just fyi. I'm also curious about how much of the context surrounding the events of the book were brought up in the classroom. This book has had some controversy around it, some factual inaccuracies but mainly the fact that it rather simplistically paints Koreans as the bad guys despite the fact that the Japanese were there as an occupying force that did some pretty terrible things. (https://www.history.com/news/japan-colonization-korea is a good place to start for an overview of the actual events.)

Anyhow, this will likely wind up unpublished for low ratings anyway, but just pointing out that when the story was created it was in Sneak Peek by default (the option is under Storygame Properties) which means the URL can be shared with teachers, friends, whoever, so that they can read it without the story being published and open to public comments.

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I am guessing this is set during the Korean War but I'm not sure as there wasn't a lot of background information provided. There were quite a few spelling and grammar mistakes (try writing on Word first and copy and paste it in, that way it points out the mistakes for you) with a particular resistance to capitalizing the first letter of the first word in a sentence being particularly noticeable.

Most of the choices seemed to lie between staying quiet or making a noise and dying in some bizarre and unlikely way, having said that to some extent you did seem to catch some realism of the Korean culture (in the opinion of someone who has visited South Korea) and the use of names and some cultural aspects were good, though as mentioned I am still puzzled as to when this is supposed to be set and the title, though intriguing, also doesn't offer additional clues.

As a school project the bad spelling is the biggest weakness but you're friends seem... excited (?) by it and it isn't too bad :) I gave it 4/8.

It was a pretty good story but there were some spelling mistakes

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